Quotes About Seclusion

It wasn't the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. [...] It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find or touch you any more.

There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote.

I'm most fascinated by remote places and lonely islands, which are also the hardest places to reach.

The Night Managers.

bathroom—if you

I have said that I dwelt apart from the visible world, but I have not said that I dwelt alone.

Justice] demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.

as the centre of a thick wood. In this snug retreat sat a duck on her nest, watching for her young brood to hatch;

Nah," Hal said. "Tit always comes in with the same limpdicked crew and they leave together. They don't talk to no one else. It's verboten.

On the Tour, you live in a bubble - your team, the other riders, the press - so you don't know how it looks from outside.

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence.

and in a city, if you don't want to see anyone ever again, you can often dodge them indefinitely. Not so in Isle Madame. It didn't take long to see that privacy was not much valued here, and was not easy to obtain.

Shall I, like a hermit, dwellOn a rock or in a cell?

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

then go to my room where solitude gaped whale-jawed wide to swallow me entire.

I've always been one to shy away from the publicity, the limelight, whatever you want to call it. I prefer to be in the background.

I like to have my privacy. I don't like people knowing what I do in my free time. I am also a very shy person, but I understand that people want to know more.

Pavese's continual prayers for the strength to lead a life of rigorous seclusion and solitude ("The only heroic rule is to be alone, alone, alone") are entirely of a piece with his repeated complaints about his inability to feel.

To be off the grid is to be disconnected from most of America's infrastructure without having to cross any border.

'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Nonetheless innuendo and imperfectly definable actions hover over the actions of the hermit.

C'è qualcosa di assoluto e di imprendibile in certi esseri, sembra una lontananza dal mondo, dai vivi, ma sembra anche il segno di chi subisce un potere che non conosciamo.